At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Hong Kong based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Edmund Lowell
Founder & CEO of KYC Chain
Originally from the United States, graduating from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts where he studied law, finance and technology, Edmund Lowell is a serial entrepreneur living in Asia since 2011, innovating at the crossroads of finance, technology and legal fields. Edmund has built a number of Fintech and RegTech products during this time including Flag Theory, Incorporations.io, KYC-Chain.com, Passports.io and SelfKey.org . The SelfKey software has processed KYC for over 500,000 identity owners and over USD$200m USD in transaction volume since Q4 2017.
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About KYC Chain, Selfkey: KYC-Chain is a novel platform built over the convenience and security of Distributed Ledger technology.

Hugo Garcia-Cotte
CEO of Cypheme
Founder at Cypheme
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About Cypheme: Cypheme is an artificial intelligence capable of detecting counterfeit products by analyzing the product’s packaging.
Cedric Jeannot
Founder and CEO of APrivacy
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About APrivacy: APrivacy is a FinTech company that provides the banking industry with information security and tracking services.
Keith Hung
co-founder & CEO of Custonomy
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About Custonomy, OneOneDay: Custonomy provides institutional-grade MPC key management solutions to manage, store and transact crypto assets.
Vivien Chan
CEO & Co-Founder of CISC
Vivien has over 15 years of managerial experience in the information technology industry, particular in managing IT projects for system development, infrastructure setup and information security assessment. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong focusing in area of Digital Forensics and Criminal Profiling. She has published research papers in this domain in the past few years.
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About CISC: CISC is an IT company provides services and solutions in the area of cyber intelligence and cyber security with focus in CIIP and FIIP.
Kin Au
Co-founder & CEO of GraviCoins
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About GraviCoins: GraviCoins provides an exchange solution with efficient trading performance and advanced security.
Ivy Wong
Founder & CEO of VS Media
Ivy Wong is the CEO & Founder at VS MEDIA.
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About VS Media: VS Media Ltd. is the next generation media network.
Calvin Chung
Chief Executive Officer of Springdel
Entrepreneur, Pioneer MDM
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About Springdel: Springdel takes enterprise beyond cloud and device management with the world’s only EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the Edge of Things

Aaron Cooper
CEO of Lantrn
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About Lantrn: Lantrn is a secure suitcases to make traveling the world with essentials seamless and secure, so everyone can always have the perfect trip.